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Word: grand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to Mr. W. R. Hearst's newly acquired drum major the latest thing in New Mexico is "I bet you Coolidges to Brisbanes," etc., or thus and so. In grand grands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Curt, Clear, Complete," so why not substitute Little Slam and Grand Slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Cabinet. After consulting party leaders King Carol, eager to foster the creation of a "Grand Coalition Cabinet" in which the old Crown parties would be represented, found this impossible, was obliged to put up with another Peasant Party Cabinet?this party being now overwhelmingly the largest. Finally His Majesty named as Prime Minister Professor George Mironescu, the new Cabinet lining up thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peasant After Peasant | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Gloucester | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has raised and maintains the standard of public righteousness and does in the face of what it must have known would cause the usual hypocritical outburst of pseudopatriots on such occasions. It will be of interest that the same question was raised in the early days of the Grand Army of the Republic and by steady stages of courageous battling within and without what started as a minority for better behavior finally won out. My thanks as an American and a Harvard man. '91. (Name Withheld by Request.) Boscawen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From an Alumnus | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

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